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Lectures on diet and regimen : being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine. Vol. I / by A. F. M. Willich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet in disease.
- Diet--Early works to 1800.
- Diet.
- Health promotion.
- Hygiene--Early works to 1800.
- Hygiene.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (xxxii, 304 pages)).
- Edition:
- The first Boston, from the second London, edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : printed by Manning & Loring, 1800.
- Notes:
- All the lifestyle books advocated the same things: moderation and regularity in eating, drinking, sexual activity and the expression of emotions, combined with fresh air, cleanliness and exercise. All medicine was holistic in this period; excess in these areas caused minor ills that could easily become major if balance was not restored.
- Collection reference: Shelved by Evans number
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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